New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-01-03
WHAT IClS IN THE UHIShEIf
A GERSiAN DIES IN AGONY AFTER DRINKING TWO
sPOONFUIS.

GERMAN DIES IN AGONY AFTER DEINKlN" TWO
sPOONFCLs
Wendell Jung, age seventy ono. a brewer living az
No 4OI East Fly fourth st, diod yesterday morn
Ing at his home in great agony, after swallowing
about two teas oonfuls OF some stun which had boeh
bought as whiskcy. DR. ng whose Office Is IN
Fifty second St, between Second and Thru aVes ana
who was called attend SIR. Jung shortly before MS
death, derel the case OF so strange chHr"o"r
tLat he sent word 10 Coroner Mossemcr 1he story
that was told to Coroner MESSENGER under oath Is
substantially follows:
MI Jung was a MARI ell man and bad two Children
Between II and l. o'clock on Friday night Mrs jung
sent Mary her fourteen ycar-oh daughter to INC
store to get "schnapp-." A. Mary "a- go hs
out Celia Jung, the young dauehtcr-in law OF Mrs
jung said that IL late that she would go win
Mary. The two went to Frank EGans combination
.aquOr and grocery store at No 3io East fity iohrh
st. Celia asked for some brandy but Mary, who hid
a pint bottle Tn her. said that brandy was not "ht
was wanted, but whiskcy The proprietor took tho
bottle and went TO large barrel upon who was
marked "Rum" and filed it with liquid for which
he asked 20 cents.
No one drank anyth NJ from this bottle until about
3 D. H. on New Years. Then Celia poured about
teaspO0niu of the stun into wine glass and t1ed 10
drink it As soon as the Liquid reached her mouth
It seemed as II she lad u rei hot coal there and she
spit t out at She staggered for a moment
seemed to be chok NJ. rei TO speak aad fen uncon-
sci,u.. After out ten minutes she became con
sciOus. She had q horrible burning sensation III
her mouth, and her lips became hvid and swellcd
rapidly. She could not speak swallow and SUI
tered terribly. She at last Decamo better She has
since hal sore throat and been unable 70 swallow
Mr.. Jung came homo In the evening whether ho
had been drinking Coroner Mcsscncr did not earn
Mr. Jung hearl about his daughter IN law and con
Guided that c would try some Of the whlskcy himself
He poured two teas, Oorfuls into glass and swal-
lOweI It. Immediately he became deathly sick ana
ell to the floor Largo Quantities oi cOneo ana sugar
we're given him lie felt better for few moments
and then rapidly grew worse. He complained OF
violent pans IN TIM head and distressing papatioh
If the heart. His abdomen s~clied 10 an unusual
.i2c He iccamo unconscious, and died In about
two hours and hall a:tor hr had taken tho wh-key
Dr. MESSENGER di1 not get any statement from
Egan in explanation OF The peculiar action OF the
lu,f nor dbl he learn wfe,her oleIe any poison
ous sui stance in the bottle ocitre II was taken 10
Exams place. Egdn found at home by
TRIBUNE reporter last evening. lie SAID he had
not heard Of lungs death and did not remember
having SOLE him any liquor i sell liquor only BY
tho measure,n he SAID, land mt by the glass.
h vc Il license and ! do business just as Park Il
I1ford do. I have been In this business sixteen
years and never before had any complaint OF This
kind The man probably had too much 10 drink on
New Years day He formerly lived right OPT slto
me lie owed me o bill, and when went 10 Ills EN-
uIoyer about e. I was told that Jung had been In
mred by "a fall in stable. and that no would not
I've long"